A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has fixed 24th January, 2018 for judgment on the suit filed by the Ekiti State House of Assembly against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ). The Assembly filed the suit to restrain the anti-graft agency from launching a probe into its finances. The state legislators led by Speaker Kola Oluwawole headed to the court seeking reliefs to stop the EFCC from arresting or detaining them from performing their functions. Justice Taiwo… Read more

The Ekiti State House of Assembly is in the news again for the wrong reasons. The lawmaker representing Ekiti-East State Constituency Hon. Dare Pelemo, is in the eye of the storm for alleged sexual harassment and physical assault to a woman, Mrs. Mercy Ilesanmi. ODUNAYO OGUNMOLA examines the issue. The Parliament is respected all over the world as an important institution in a democratic dispensation. Because of its importance, members of the Parliament at local, state and national levels are… Read more

Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has dragged a member of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Samuel Omotoso and Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka to court for libel. Fayemi, the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, is claiming N3 billion as damages from Omotoso and Olayinka in a libel suit filed by his counsel, Rafiu Balogun, before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja for alleged offensive statements made against him… Read more

Tension mounted in some parts of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Monday over the refusal of the House of Assembly Speaker Kola Oluwawole to swear in member-elect to represent Ado Constituency 1, Toyin Obayemi. Some youths in Odo Ado area of the city who are supporters of Obayemi said they could no longer endure lack of representation in the Assembly and said they could be forced to resort to self-help on the development. Rising from an emergency meeting held at… Read more

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over claim that the Federal Government has placed travel ban on him. The petition filed on his behalf by the state's House of Assembly also complained about the alleged refusal of an agent of the Fed Govt, the Department of State Services (DSS) to obey a Federal High Court judgment, ordering it to pay N5 million damages on the illegal arrest and detention for 18 days of… Read more

The Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr Kola Oluwawole, on Monday condoled with the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Ado-Ekiti branch, over the death of six of its members in an auto-crash. Oluwawole also condoled with the people and government of Ekiti in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Stephen Gbadamosi, in Ado-Ekiti. He described the death of the six medical doctors as a grievous moment, not only for EKiti, but the entire nation and the health… Read more

The Senate Wednesday mandated its committee on National Security and Intelligence to investigate alleged invasion of Ekiti State House of Assembly by some personnel of the Department of State Security (DSS). This followed a motion by Senator Biodun Olujimi (Ekiti South) entitled “The invasion of Ekiti State House of Assembly by armed men of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) on Friday , March 4, 2016.” Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who gave the committee two weeks to submit detailed… Read more

The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has said Governor Ayodele Fayose cannot escape impeachment. He said the impeachment notice served him is a constitutional matter and not theatrics to play down serious issues of the law raised in the letter to the governor. He said instead of hiding to evade justice, it is better to live with the reality that the rule of law has come to stay in the country. Reacting to media… Read more

Justifying the coup he plotted and executed in the Ekiti State House of Assembly last Thursday, the same day a similar madness was unfolding in Abuja, Governor Ayo Fayose claimed the leadership of the assembly had abandoned work. He was uninterested in what the constitution says, or the fact that he virtually drove the lawmakers out of town. Seven lawmakers out of the state’s 26 lawmakers could unseat Speaker Adewale Omirin and other legislative leaders, the governor and his rebel… Read more